Thanks, that'll be a good bit of information to rattle around in my brain.
If the apocalypse comes, beep me.
Buffy ,'Selfless'
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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-t - Feb 16, 2008 4:12:56 pm PST #3841 of 5968
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
joe boucher - Feb 16, 2008 6:25:43 pm PST #3842 of 5968
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
I don't know if it's a clue or just more fun with character names, but when Frank gives Daniel the phone so he can call the ship prior to his experiment he (Frank) says, "If Minkowski gets on the line hang up immediately." Twenty years ago I knew Maxwell's equations (including which one he got from Faraday) and what the Lorentz transformation was and who Minkowski was, but I certainly didn't pay enough attention in class to remember it a couple decades later. I know we have some Buffista physicists, but I don't know if any of them watch Lost. If so maybe s/he can explain his contributions & their connection to the show. In the link above scroll down to the part about "The Einstein-Minkowski Spacetime":
The characteristic feature of Galileo's Spacetime was the set of horizontal slices representing "planes of simultaneity". On a given plane, all of its events are simultaneous. This is the notion of Absolute Time, in which all observers agree on the elapsed-time between two given events.[...]
Einstein's extension of the Principle of Relativity to all physical laws requires us to abandon Galileo's Spacetime---in particular, its universal "planes of simultaneity"---that is, the notion of Absolute Time.
In its place, we have the Einstein-Minkowski Spacetime... The characteristic feature of this spacetime is the Light Cone, a double-cone centered at each event in Spacetime.
I would excerpt a coherent explanation of that but I don't really understand it. And even when I sober up I don't think I'll understand it.
-t - Feb 16, 2008 7:08:32 pm PST #3843 of 5968
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I would never have made that connection. Referencing special relativity lends a tiny smidgen of credence to my baby-black-hole-somewhere-on-the-island theory. THough the whole conversing by radio with no lag screws that up, doesn't it?
So, so far from a Unified Theory of Lost.
sumi - Feb 20, 2008 10:30:01 am PST #3844 of 5968
Art Crawl!!!
It's official: Lost is moving to the 10 pm Eastern/9 Central timeslot come April 24th. After the returning episode of Grey's Anatomy.
Laura - Feb 20, 2008 12:03:47 pm PST #3845 of 5968
Our wings are not tired.
Crap. I just can't stay up that late on a week night. Guess I'll be watching on delay.
Java cat - Feb 20, 2008 10:23:54 pm PST #3846 of 5968
Not javachik
Some mag needs to do a "new fall tv!" issue with all the changes, with, you know, spring instead of fall.
le nubian - Feb 21, 2008 1:40:31 am PST #3847 of 5968
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I bet Entertainment Weekly or TV guide will do so.
quester - Feb 21, 2008 5:32:13 pm PST #3848 of 5968
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Well, that was a big WTF!? moment.
le nubian - Feb 21, 2008 5:45:18 pm PST #3849 of 5968
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
and I kind of saw it coming...
quester - Feb 21, 2008 5:56:01 pm PST #3850 of 5968
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I knew something wasn't right, but, I admit, I didn't see it.